The cost of an average individual ticket will rise by 11 percent, while subscriber tickets will go up an average of 6 percent.
With 150 musical theater performances each fall-to-spring subscriber season which attract over 30,000 subscribers and average ticket sales of 300,000 tickets annually, the 5th ranks among the nation's largest musical theater companies.
A Met spokesman said that in 2005, an email survey was sent to 75,000 audience members, both subscribers and single ticket buyers - and 21 percent of subscribers and 19 percent of single ticket buyers responded.
If all the NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers went elsewhere, Ganis said, it would cost DirecTV billions in subscriber fees.
And while the Westchester Symphony did not come up with half of its final $100,000 operating budget and had just 350 season ticket subscribers, the Westchester Philharmonic has an annual operating budget of $1.4 million, 1,700 season ticket subscribers and an endowment of $450,000.
The game will be available to NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers on DirecTV and carried on Fox stations in New York and Minnesota.
A survey of Baltimore Symphony subscribers and single ticket buyers five years ago found that 70 percent played or had studied an instrument, which is typical elsewhere as well.
Not until mid-August, with the imminent fall season tingling in the air, did he turn his attention to reaching subscribers and other ticket buyers.
Those were among the results of a recent survey of DirectTV N.F.L. Sunday Ticket subscribers, done in conjunction with a national contest to find the "ultimate displaced fan".
"Sunday Ticket" subscribers, who number more than two million and pay $300 a year to see up to 14 Sunday afternoon games, deserve an answer.
Multiple "Sunday Ticket" subscribers, commenting on an article on the Web site of the trade magazine Multichannel News, complained of the added charge.
